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Situated on the south-eastern periphery of Europe and also of the European Union, Romania is nevertheless to a certain extent located at the centre of European developments in civil law: Closeness above all to the French Code civil, but also influences of the Austrian ABGB and German law as well as other legal systems accumulate to a new European-internationally open ZGB of 2011. This volume reveals Romanian civil law as part of the common European private law.

Evgenii Zamiatin's reputation rests on the pivotal role he played in the development of Russian modernism. Hitherto, however, critical engagement with the experimental nature of his fiction has been largely confined to his middle period: the satirical stories set in Great Britain, the dystopian novel My, and related works. As a writer who came to prominence at the time of the October Revolution, Zamiatin is best known as an early and vocal critic of the new culture of conformism, and as the author in the 1920s of various artistic manifestoes in which he engaged with the problem of literature's future in relation to the Revolution, and sought to articulate his own brand of synthetic modernism. This study presents a different and complementary view of Zamiatin as a writer whose fiction, whilst certainly modernist, conformed to what Eikhenbaum termed 'literary Populism'. Zamiatin's intimate knowledge of the Russian provinces and the world of folk-religious culture are key elements in the skaz-style conceit which underpins his early fiction.This study stresses Zamiatin's enormous debt to such writers as Leskov and Remizov, and locates his work within a rich tradition of ethnographic belles-lettres and oral-based fiction. The texts analysed exploit materials from the folk-religious imagination in an attempt to refresh and 'democratize' the literary language through the use of the peasant vernacular. Zamiatin sought immediacy and dynamism in his provincial prose, and his works in this mould are best appreciated through the prism of twentieth-century neoprimitivism and expressionism. Their lubok-style simplicity, however, conceals a complex attitude towards the folk-religious world at their core. The poetic and celebratory is balanced by the sceptical and ironic, and the resulting tension characterizes these texts as essentially modernistic.

L’Éros proprement amoureux de Dumas, qui le poussa à accumuler sa vie durant conquêtes et maîtresses, est la figure emblématique d’une énergie vitale et d’un désir de littérature et d’action qui n’avaient pas, en tant que tels, fait l’objet d’assez d’attention. Proposant une « éro-poétique » de l’œuvre dumasienne, l’ouvrage y aborde le désir selon plusieurs directions privilégiées. Il explore le désir amoureux et érotique, sa représentation, sa productivité et sa portée dans les différents genres illustrés par Dumas (théâtre, romans, contes, récits de voyage, autobiographie et écrits intimes, causeries…). Il envisage plus largement le désir comme une origine et un foyer de la création dumasienne, permettant d’en comprendre la fécondité, la variété, mais aussi les modes d’énonciation et de réception. Il s’intéresse enfin aux empreintes du désir chez les descendants biologiques et littéraires de Dumas, et à la façon dont les motifs sentimentaux et l’érotisme façonnent l’imaginaire qui se déploie dans les réécritures, les adaptations ou les suites de ses œuvres, telles que le D’Artagnan amoureux de Nimier.

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society. To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used — the language of property, in particular — to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America.

A obra é fruto de tese defendida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Cênicas da UFBA, em 2007. Aborda questões relativas ao teatro em meio ao ideário contracultural, investindo sua argumentação contra a afirmação de que a produção teatral que se dá de 1968 a 1974 é destituída de criticidade. Propondo outro ponto de vista, o livro apresenta e analisa a produção teatral para afirmar que não houve um "vazio cultural" durante o período em que o governo civil-militar esteve no poder e utilizou a censura e a repressão para calar os artistas.

Wireless cellular networks are an integral part of modern telecommunication systems. Today it is hard to imagine our life without the use of such networks. Nevertheless, the development, implementation and operation of these networks require engineers and scientists to address a number of interrelated problems. Among them are the problem of choosing the proper geometric shape and dimensions of cells based on geographical location, finding the optimal location of cell base station, selection the scheme dividing the total net bandwidth between its cells, organization of the handover of a call between cells, information security and network reliability, and many others. The book focuses on three types of problems from the above list - Positioning, Performance Analysis and Reliability. It contains three sections. The Section 1 is devoted to problems of Positioning and contains five chapters. The Section 2 contains eight Chapters which are devoted to quality of service (QoS) metrics analysis of wireless cellular networks. The Section 3 contains two Chapters and deal with reliability issues of wireless cellular networks. The book will be useful to researches in academia and industry and also to post-gradute students in telecommunication specialitiies.

This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. This dislocation of the idea of the forest from its literal roots in the ground has generated problems for forest visualization efforts designed to empower local communities. This book takes a critical humanistic approach to this problem, combining methods from the fields of rhetoric and media studies to suggest solutions to these problems for designers and users of platforms like the Global Forest Watch. To explain why global views of forests can be disempowering, the book relies on biopolitical and rhetorical theories of panopticism and how these views unfold a different violence on different regions of the Earth in relation to colonial history. Using this theoretical framework, the book explains the historical process by which forests came to be classified, quantified, and mapped on a global scale. Interviews with end-users of global forest visualization platforms reveal if and how these platforms support local action. Lastly, the book provides rhetorical solutions to articulate global and local views of forests without reducing one view to the other. These solutions involve looking to forests themselves for clues about how to generate more broadly effective and resilient visualizations. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of forest studies, climate change, science communication, visualization studies, environmental communication, and environmental conservation. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

1975 fut l’année du 150e anniversaire de la naissance d’Emile Ollivier, occasion choisie par l’association des amis de l’homme d’État pour se réunir dans sa propriété de la Moutte. Le côté éphémère de cette célébration fit naître le projet de poursuivre sous une forme durable, plus approfondie, l’élude des idées et de l’œuvre d’un homme à qui les événements historiques ont imposé un profil stéréotypé, très différent de la réalité. D’éminents spécialistes du Second Empire ont accepté de traiter les aspects les plus importants, souvent inconnus voire méconnus, de l’action politique et de l’œuvre d’Emile Ollivier. La richesse du sujet a permis de réaliser le présent ouvrage où l’on découvre Emile Ollivier dans son passé et son présent. Les auteurs éclairent sa physionomie et son histoire, poussant l’analyse à un degré de profondeur où elle devient synthèse. La pensée d’Emile Ollivier est déployée par chaque auteur dans son domaine propre avec une pertinence qui ouvre à la recherche historique la plus variée. Tous les historiens, enseignants, érudits et étudiants, seront séduits par cette variété de regards capables de susciter des thèses nouvelles. Ces « Regards sur Emile Ollivier » s’adressent à ceux qui s’intéressent à l’histoire du Second Empire et à l’histoire des Idées.

Health issues are rarely limited to a single tissue or organ. A functional disorder that begins in a single organ cell first affects that organ and then spreads to all other organs, like a domino effect, leading to systemic deterioration of health. This cellular process manifests clinically as multiple diseases and/or comorbidities. Fundamentally, these disease burdens, which pose significant financial challenges for the healthcare system, rank among the foremost professional challenges for physicians. Although comorbidity, which is most commonly observed in later life, is often perceived as a health issue associated with aging. Multimorbidity, on the other hand, refers to health issues that can occur regardless of age. In this book, titled Understanding Multimorbidity and Comorbidity , each chapter addresses health issues and strategies for managing them.

Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria explores and analyses the underlying sources and salient features of recent ethnic minority conflicts in Nigeria, the largely controversial policies by which the Nigerian state has sought to contain these conflicts, and the prospects and preconditions for a more stable and equitable system of federal governance in the country. Through an insightful examination of two most recent minority conflicts in the country, the author probes the contem...

This reprint aims to identify critical areas of water quality assessment, modeling, and mitigation in freshwater bodies, wastewater treatment, and groundwater aquifers, which require special attention. This links the volume to multiple regulatory options, including policy and governance measures, alternative ecosystem service dependence options (i.e., nature-based solutions), or mechanisms that link regions to international processes, like measures proposed under the Environmental Protection guidelines. The reprint will pay special attention to water quality assessment, modeling, and mitigation.

Small scale mechanical deformations have gained a significant interest over the past few decades, driven by the advances in integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems. One of the most powerful and versatile characterization methods is the nanoindentation technique. The capabilities of these depth-sensing instruments have been improved considerably. They can perform experiments in vacuum and at high temperatures, such as in-situ SEM and TEM nanoindenters. This allows researchers to visualize mechanical deformations and dislocations motion in real time. Time-dependent behavior of soft materials has also been studied in recent research works. This Special Issue on ""Small Scale Deformation using Advanced Nanoindentation Techniques""; will provide a forum for researchers from the academic and industrial communities to present advances in the field of small scale contact mechanics. Materials of interest include metals, glass, and ceramics. Manuscripts related to deformations of biomaterials and biological related specimens are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: